His Last Wife
Ruhi Choudhary
355 pages
Bookouture
published April 25, 2024
About the book
“Do not go in there, Anna. Never go in there.” The words ring in my head as I pick the lock to the only room in the house that the man I love tells me I’m not allowed to enter. Trembling as I step inside, I’m about to finally find out what happened to his last wife…
Everyone thinks my life is bliss. The love of my life, Cary, and I live in our dream home and we have a beautiful little girl, Harper. I may not have given birth to her, but I’m her mommy now. But there’s one thing we never talk about…
Cary’s wife before me, Presley, was perfect in every way. But she went missing a long time ago. Cary was distraught when he told me how she was abducted from her car, leaving behind a pool of blood. No one saw a thing.
The neighbors are always gossiping about Presley. I try to ignore them, but one day I hear something that makes my stomach flip. Presley was abducted from her home. The home I now live in. Cary lied to me about the car. But why?
As I search our beautiful home for answers, I stumble across Presley’s diary. My heart thunders in my chest as I discover the truth: Cary had something to do with his wife’s disappearance. And I’m terrified I might be next.
But Cary doesn’t know that I have a secret too. He doesn’t know how far I’ve gone to get this perfect life, and how much further I’ll go to keep it…
An unbelievably gripping psychological thriller, His Last Wife will have you flipping the pages until you reach the final, breathtaking twist. Fans of Don’t Let Her Stay, The Housemaid and The Perfect Marriage won’t be able to put this jaw-dropping read down!
My Review
Holy cow. A book that starts so tame turns into a wild ride at the end. I’m such a fan of the author’s detective Mackenzie Price, so I thought I’d try one of her stand alone novels.
It seemed a little familiar at the start and I was sure I knew where this one was headed. And I was wrong. There were a few zinger twists, that while they may not be the most plausible, I give credit anytime I am bamboozled.
While there are multiple narrators, the beginning is focused on Anna and the watcher. The watcher is one of those unnamed characters that the reader gets a chance to try and figure out who they could be.
I knew there was something off about Anna and Cary but I couldn’t’ decide if it was that she was willing to move so quickly with a man whose wife was missing and presumed dead or if there was more to it. This hook had me and I raced through the book to the roller coaster finish to see if I could figure it out.
Aside from Harper, Cary’s daughter, I am not sure I liked any of the characters. But that is not a deal breaker for me in a domestic suspense. It makes it easier for me to accept their terrible behavior.
I loved that the audiobook had two female narrators. it made it so easy to follow the focus of the chapters. Penelope Rawlins and Kelly Burke did a great job narrating and their voices really fit the characters they voiced.
Author Bio:
Ruhi Choudhary discovered her passion for writing when she was seven years old and wrote her first Star Trek episode. Being a fan of the dark and twisted, she found her calling in crime thrillers.
She likes to write stories that make you a little uncomfortable and characters that you struggle to make up your mind about but stay with you.
She lives in Toronto and spends her days training to be a scientist and wishing it rained more often!
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